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7 Wonders

A Maya pyramid is a calendar in stone

El Castillo at Chichen Itza has 91 steps on each of four sides plus the top platform, totalling 365, and at the equinoxes shadows form a serpent slithering down the staircase.

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7 Wonders

Clap at Chichen Itza and a bird answers

A handclap at the base of El Castillo returns a chirping echo that closely matches the call of the quetzal, a sacred Maya bird. Acousticians say the staircase geometry creates it.

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